This strongly suggests that the virus came from animals in the market and that it originated in those animals somewhere else. "Cases near WIV only appeared later in the outbreak." The first cases in Wuhan appear in the market, specifically in the area where live animals are sold."SARS-CoV-2 was not perfectly adapted to humans on first emergence and appears to be a "generalist" virus." Nicholas Wade is wrong about this as well.Furthermore, the virus is probably not from Yunnan province where the Wuhan Institute of Virology is located.
He describes his field work in China and Southeast Asia and his collaborations with the expert scientists in China, including those at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. (His preferred intermediate host is racoon dogs and he explains why he thinks this is likely.) He explains why the sequence of the virus is entrely consistent with a natural origin. He explains why the viruses are likely to orginate in bats and explains why this particular virus started off in bats but probably passed though an intermediate host before reaching humans. If you still think the lab leak conspiracy theory is true then I urge you to watch this video of a talk by Professor Edward ("Eddy") Holmes, the 2020 New South Wales (Australia) scientist of the year and an expert on human viruses, especially the coronoviruses. This is classic conspiracy theory stuff: everyone who disagrees with you is part of the conspiracy. were willing-and in at least one case, enthusiastic-participants in disinformation". Nicholas Wade gets a lot of his information from Richard Ebright who has been promoting the lab leak conspiracy theory for the past year. That's what makes it a conspriacy theory. So, in order for the lab leak hypothesis to be true there has to have been a massive coverup by a very large number of people.
Furthermore, none of the workers at the lab tested positive for COVID-19 and none of them were studying any virus that resembled SARS-CoV-19. They saw that the lab protocols at the Institute were very good, as you would expect for a world class lab that was studying dangerous viruses that were known to cause pandemics. Why is this a conspiracy theory? Because the speculation has been investigated by WHO scientists who found no evidence to support it. “It jeopardizes and affects our academic work and personal life. President Trump's claim that SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from our institute totally contradicts the facts,” she added. “Before that, we had never been in contact with or studied this virus, nor did we know of its existence,” Shi wrote. She and her colleagues discovered the virus in late 2019, she says, in samples from patients who had a pneumonia of unknown origin. In them, she hit back at speculation that the virus leaked from WIV.
#HAS IT LEAKED IQ RESISTANCE SERIES#
On 15 July, Shi emailed Science answers to a series of questions about the virus' origin and her research. Shi Zhengli responded to those silly accusations in July 2020.
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